On Thursday 13 April 2006 20:02, nipra wrote: > On 4/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Free software is a subset of open source software. > > I beg to differ.There are many Free Software Licenses that are not > listed in OSI certified license list.At the last count there were > around 65 Free Software Licenses(GPL compatible or incompatible) > listed against around 57 OSI certified. > Certainly a subset can't have more elements than its parent set :-)
If we consider free software, then the source code of the software must be available. In spirit, free software is a subset of open source software. Regarding licenses, well, you really cannot count the number of licenses and compare free and open source software. -Devendra Laulkar. -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
